In the middle of the last century, Australia’s closest ally was New Zealand and its bitterest enemy was Japan. In the early decades of the new century, those roles haven’t been entirely reversed, but they certainly have been severely shaken. Indeed, within a decade of the end of
When Mitt Romney tried to take Barack Obama to task over the degrading of America’s blue-water fleet, Obama responded with his trademark smirking ignorance and the left-media lapped it up. “We also have fewer horses and bayonets,” haw-haw-hawed President Smug. The media seals honked a chorus of approval. Fast-forward
Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, somewhat ironically perhaps, provoked a violent reaction in some circles. Mostly, it seems, people are so utterly convinced that they’d never seen such days as these that the very suggestion that human violence might have declined
Yesterday something occurred that warmed my heart; it really did. I was chatting online with my half-brother who lives in Los Angeles and he showed me his “concealed carry permit” which he had collected from the Sheriff’s department. I was overjoyed at this example of freedom in action. Then
William Hartung ronpaulinstitute.org William Hartung is a defence analyst and covers the economics of Pentagon spending. If Congress has its way, funding for the Department of Defense and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy will reach more than $850 billion in Fiscal Year 2023, far
Dave Patterson libertynation.com National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defence industry.
“Dumbing down” is a concept first applied to education. It’s the too-often-demonstrated reality that, if students find their lessons too hard, educators opt to make the lessons dumber, because it’s easier than trying to force students to think harder. But “dumbing down” has come to be deployed across
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in the Federalist. Ferreting out what’s in Kim Jong Un’s mind is a challenge. Throwing
Myroslav Otkovych The night sky begins to brighten. The darkness rises silently from the trenches. The grass further down in the field converses with the bugs. Still further away, a goat has us under observation, while a fox races into its den. Slowly but surely we are at the dawn
Patty-Jane Geller PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Patty-Jane Geller, a policy analyst, focuses on nuclear deterrence and missile defense in the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Deterrence is a better way to prevent hostilities than appeasement. On Thursday, the Biden administration delayed
When Russian and Chinese leadership look at the American government, do they see a formidable, confident threat to their global ambitions? When they see a demented old grifter, a slurring alcoholic grandma, and, further down the chain, an ugly old man in women’s clothing and an ugly young man
“When you try to drain a swamp,” cartoonist Scott Adams observed, you get mud on your pants and make the snakes and alligators real angry. There were many reasons the US Deep State hated President Donald Trump so viscerally, but undoubtedly one of the biggest was that he was putting
What does Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand have in common with Germany? No, it’s not just crappy weather and a reflexive urge to follow rules and obey orders, and you wish it was the beer. No, what New Zealand and Germany have in common is that they’re both
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. Exactly what Donald Trump warned smirking EU leaders — especially Angela Merkel — is coming to pass: Russia is moving to cut off the gas supplies that they are absolutely dependent on. I might also note that it looks like I’ve been
Kiwi troops have been ordered not to attend public Anzac Day commemorations to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19, Stuff can reveal. The directive, from Defence Force chief Air Marshal Kevin Short, told enlisted personnel and officers across the uniformed services not to attend public Anzac Day services. Stuff Read
What happens when a motley clownshow of keyboard warriors, neckbeards and virtue-signalling internet attention-whores plonk their flabby carcasses in the middle of a warzone? Exactly what you think. The “Volunteers for Ukraine” subreddit is brimming with accounts of people who have made the decision to travel to Ukraine, procure weapons,
